(Commercial Division) v. Krishna Devi Agarwal

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA Ordinary Original Civil Jurisdiction ORIGINAL SIDE (Commercial Division) AP-COM/811/2025 SQUARE CIRCLE MEDIA AND SPORTS PRIVATE LIMITED Versus Krishna Devi Agarwal BEFORE: The Hon’ble JUSTICE GAURANG KANTH Date : 11th November, 2025. Appearance Mr. Rohit Das, Adv. Mr. S.B. Dasgupta, Adv. Ms. K. Rahman, Adv. …for the petitioner Mr. Sanjib Bandyopadhyay, Adv. Mr. Sounak Banerjee, Adv. …for the respondent The Court: This is an application filed by the petitioner under Section 29-A of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, seeking extension of time for concluding the arbitral proceedings and publication of the award. This Court vide order dated 11.07.2023 appointed the learned sole Arbitrator to adjudicate the disputes between the parties. With the consent of the parties, the mandate of the arbitral tribunal was extended by six months till 6th October, 2025. Since the mandate of the arbitral tribunal has already expired, the petitioner has preferred the present application seeking extension of the mandate of the arbitral tribunal. 2 Learned Counsel for the petitioner states that the proceedings are at the stage of examination-in-chief of the claimant’s witness. Learned Counsel for the respondent states that he has no objection to the present application. Upon consideration, this Court is satisfied that there has been no undue or unwarranted delay on the part of the learned sole Arbitrator in conducting the proceedings. Accordingly, the mandate of the arbitral tribunal is extended for a further period of one year from today. Learned Sole Arbitrator is requested to ensure that the arbitral proceedings are conducted and the award is published within the time extended by this Court. With the aforesaid observation, the present arbitration petition is